If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNEEvery one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.
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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
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We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.
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Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
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The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
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